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Dyson: James Dyson (2018)
How I Built This with Guy Raz
How Does the Cyclone Axy Work?
i'd had the idea for the vacuum cleaner. Instead of painting them with wet paint, we elected to use epoxy coating. The way you get the poxy on to the frames is to spray the powder electrostatically. A wheelbarrow frame is a very open thing, so a lot of the spray is going to miss the frame and have to be sucked away. So i asked the kind of people who made this equipment what smart people used. And i learned that they used giant cyclones. Now i'd seen giant cyclones on sawmills for collecting fine sawdust. So i went and copied one of those that i saw on a local sawmill. I climbed over
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